{"id":442554,"date":"2022-05-06T02:08:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T23:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-divided-america-is-united-in-its-freedom-to-debate-those-differences\/"},"modified":"2022-05-06T02:08:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T23:08:51","slug":"a-divided-america-is-united-in-its-freedom-to-debate-those-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-divided-america-is-united-in-its-freedom-to-debate-those-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"#A divided America is united in its freedom to debate those differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36e7d7e2a8f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36e7d7e2a8f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-divided-america-is-united-in-its-freedom-to-debate-those-differences\/#%E2%80%9CA_divided_America_is_united_in_its_freedom_to_debate_those_differences%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A divided America is united in its freedom to debate those differences&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_divided_America_is_united_in_its_freedom_to_debate_those_differences%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A divided America is united in its freedom to debate those differences&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>For many years we\u2019ve heard talk of \u201cdivided America.\u201d Thousands of articles, books and speeches have been devoted to the idea that America has a political chasm, and that the divide is getting worse. It h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens to be true. Though if you thought it was bad up till now, wait till the results of this week\u2019s Supreme Court leak get felt.<\/p>\n<p>It took just minutes for protestors to be outside the Supreme Court screaming about fascism. And in the days since Monday night\u2019s bombshell no top Democrat has even bothered to condemn the appalling leak of the draft judgement. There are now calls for the Justices to have their home addresses made public. Others have called for pre-emptive revenge against them.<\/p>\n<p>The people doing this claim that the Republicans spent recent years destroying the nation\u2019s institutions. Well these people are trying to destroy the Supreme Court. One MSNBC contributor this week claimed that the way the Senate as an institution is also the problem. In the name of defending America the left seems intent on destroying it.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of all this, is there any way America can stick together? I\u2019d say \u201cyes.\u201d And that the answer is sitting right in front of us.<\/p>\n<p>Most countries don\u2019t have a First Amendment, because most countries don\u2019t have America\u00b4s faith in free speech. Most countries in the world today, and historically, find free expression to be a nuisance. China\u2019s rulers think a free press is a right pain. So they don\u2019t allow it. If you live in China or Russia today you get told what to believe. You get told what you are allowed to know. And you\u2019re expected to just suck it up.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Supreme-Court-Abortion.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Demonstrators protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court \" class=\"wp-image-22160766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Supreme-Court-Abortion.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Supreme-Court-Abortion.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Supreme-Court-Abortion.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Supreme-Court-Abortion.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Demonstrators protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Alex Brandon<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>America is different, and always has been. The Founders understood that free speech is messy, noisy, irritating and more. Yet it is also the only way for a country to be free. And to arrive at truths. A country in which even your deepest feelings can be trodden upon is the only country worth living in.<\/p>\n<p>Yet wherever you look in America today you can see this founding principle under attack.<\/p>\n<p>Over recent years the radical left claimed that words are violence. Say something they don\u2019t like and they will claim that you are causing them \u201charm.\u201d The same people claimed that \u201csilence is violence.\u201d So if you don\u2019t nod along with everything they are saying you are committing an act of violence.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there is one thing that they don\u00b4t think is violence. And that\u2019s violence.<\/p>\n<p>That is why we saw the explosion of burnings, killings and lootings in the summer of 2020. Because the left and their <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> supporters claimed that actual violence was a form of speech.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Supreme-Court-Abortion-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Anti-scaling fence\" class=\"wp-image-22160765\"\/><figcaption>An anti-scaling fence has been placed around the U.S. Supreme Court as protests continue. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/ Alex Brandon<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That has practical results, for individuals as well as the country. Just the other night Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage at the Hollywood Bowl. We don\u00b4t know much yet about the attacker. But it\u2019s not surprising somebody would choose to attack the brilliant comedian.<\/p>\n<p>Because for years now, radical activists have lied about Chappelle. In particular they have tried to claim that Chappelle is a \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/05\/04\/dave-chappelle-slammed-for-joking-a-trans-man-attacked-him\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">transphobe<\/a>\u201d for not falling into line with the radical left\u2019s gender nonsense. As anybody who follows him knows, Chappelle doesn\u2019t hate any group. In his most recent Netflix special he went out of his way to explain his nuanced and loving attitude towards all people. Including trans people.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>But when you claim that such nuance is violence, and that jokes are violence, then of course somebody will end up taking a run at the accused. We are lucky that the results weren\u2019t worse.<\/p>\n<p>Yet everywhere you look in America today the same intolerance of other people\u00b4s opinions is growing. Sometimes it is children in schools who are fearful of speaking up if they have the \u201cwrong opinions.\u201d Or students at college fearful that they will be marked down if they believe things most Americans believed until yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>In other places there is a purge of those who won\u00b4t go along with this month\u00b4s dogma.<\/p>\n<p>For instance in recent weeks we have seen a purge of Russian artists in America. In this city Russian musicians and others are being told they must condemn Vladimir Putin if they are to be allowed to perform in New York. Even during the height of the Cold War we didn\u2019t do this. We recognized that the arts should be divorced from politics, and that we should not demand \u201cpurity tests\u201d from artists.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/AFP_327B3DV.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Opera soprano singer Anna Netrebko is one of the latest Russians to be purged.\" class=\"wp-image-22160798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/AFP_327B3DV.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/AFP_327B3DV.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/AFP_327B3DV.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/AFP_327B3DV.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Russian opera soprano singer Anna Netrebko  is one of the latest Russians to be purged in America.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But just this month the Russian soprano Anna Netrebko was dumped by the Metropolitan opera. Netrebko had already condemned the war in Ukraine, earning herself horrible attacks in her native Russia. But the Met decided that this wasn\u2019t enough. So they dropped her. Leading to an even bigger, and gleeful, backlash against her at home. Is this just or fair? Should we \u201ctest\u201d all performers in this way? Is it a good example of how a free society works?<\/p>\n<p>Such intolerance is everywhere. Even at government level. We now have the US government actually setting up a disinformation unit in the Department of Homeland Security. So now the DHS is going to tell Americans what is true? Nevermind that the Mary Poppins wannabe lined up for the job wouldn\u2019t know a truth from a lie if Julie Andrews sang it to her at top volume. The point is that in America it is not the job of the government to tell us any such things. Not just because there is nobody so good that their job should be to make us all right. But because we all have the right to get things wrong.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/biden-disinformation-czar-crt-disinformation-04.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Nina Jankowicz\" class=\"wp-image-22160876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/biden-disinformation-czar-crt-disinformation-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/biden-disinformation-czar-crt-disinformation-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/biden-disinformation-czar-crt-disinformation-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Nina Jankowicz was hired  to lead a Homeland Security Department, even with her past of spreading false information. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">YouTube \/ The City Club of Cleveland<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a country this huge we are always going to have different opinions. And we need to learn how to live together, not how to divide ourselves further. The answer is not less speech, or government-approved speech, but more speech.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly many Americans seem to be losing faith in that answer. They want to be the only ones allowed to speak \u2014 with the rest of us just meant to listen. Well, the answer to that is \u201cno.\u201d The Founders knew what they were doing. Whether the radicals appreciate that fact or not.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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